Textbook

Invitation to Poetry: The Pleasures of Studying Poetry and Poetics

ISBN: 978-1-4051-3164-3

Paperback

256 pages

Other Available Formats: Hardcover

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For anyone who has ever wanted to become fluent in the language of poetry, Invitation to Poetry will prove an essential guide. This book:

Teaches the serious student how to ‘speak poetry’ through an in-depth examination of the traditional features and technical vocabulary of poetic language;
Examines British and American materials from the sixteenth through the twentieth centuries in order to give students a sense of a range of different period styles, poetic projects, and strategies;
Explicitly examines, questions and challenges the relationship of poetry to literary periods and canons;
Offers the technical tools essential for close reading and interpretation across a broad chronological spectrum.